Notices by Dad (geekanddad@mastodon.social)

@sinbad And on early Macintosh a reduction of hidden commands. Everything you could do was visible in a menu or on screen.

But the sections in the early Macintosh manual on how to use a mouse (which was limited to 1 button to make them easier to learn for complete neophytes) is multiple pages with graphics and so on. Really shows how far we’ve come from those first days.

@sinbad Computer glasses are so worth it. Neck pain reduction and ability to have your monitors at the distance you prefer for posture etc.

I had to measure the actual distance from my eyes to the monitor and take that in to the eye doc to get the prescription right. If you just ask for mid-distance they may not do it at the distance you prefer. (I’m also having depth of field reduction being an element of the challenge).

@sinbad Nah! Good to educate the rest of the world about spanners and torches and whatnot 🙃

@sinbad For technical stuff it’s really helpful to include a date because things change so much you otherwise can easily be unsure if this something is still the state of things. Version numbers of platforms, tools, and so on really help also. It’s amazing how many posts there are missing this kind of important information, or even a date.

@sinbad Plus at ~US$150, those aren’t snob headphones. Just no longer “Cheap Junk.” Snob headphones start at at least twice that. At least that’s what my actual snob headphone friend spent 😂

Don't skip the replies; some additional useful info there. https://hear-me.social/@Jerry/113657096385754371

@sinbad Interesting. No extra sugar in my wife’s sourdough bread. Maybe the type of wheat she uses or the multi-day feeding it gets.

@sinbad Why is there sugar in bread?

@sinbad So many weird things with resonance and whatnot that sometimes just changing the rpm by a little changes things in significant ways from my ear’s perspective. Might be worth a try. Glad to hear you improved it with placement. Machine whines are not happy things.

@sinbad Can you control the fan speeds any and just reduce them by 10% or something?

@sinbad Excellent! I insulated our attic to R30 but after talking to a neighbor who put in R60, I’m going to upgrade. Their house definitely is warmer in winter and cooler in summer :)

I think you have to count the heat generated by your cats though, given how active they seem to be :)

@thomasfuchs @toba Are you interested in counter thoughts on this? Asking because I drafted a lengthy reply but then realized you might not be interested and thus it might be annoying (which I have no interest in being).

@inthehands Looks cool. Why don’t you use it for your regular workflow, if you don’t mind me asking?

@jrose @Catfish_Man I found this a bit chilling when extrapolated to society as a whole. Due to a year+ of fairly intense interaction with the US medical system (two hospitals, ER departments, medical clinics, etc) I know the medical system has been squeezed for profit so much that it has little redundancy and limited resilience. How many other systems in society has been squeezed by profit maximizing to become brittle and vulnerable? 🤔

@Catfish_Man Not that I remember.

Quick search found this:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15805459/

And this post that talks about it and provides some context:

https://ferd.ca/notes/paper-going-solid.html

Neither of which I’ve read yet, but I will.

If you have a better thing to read on it, sure, I’d like to see it.

Thank you.

@inthehands Reed College professors assigned grades so you have a transcript and can apply to graduate school, but as long as you’re passing your classes you don’t see your grades until you apply to graduate school or make an effort to go check (which is generally lightly discouraged). An effort is made to help transition students to intrinsic motivation - I’m interested in this subject and like learning - from the overly extrinsic motivation regimen in elementary and high school.

@inthehands This is very freeing for many. Uncomfortable for those who’ve bought into maximizing the external measure.

Downside: It can hurt people who want to go to graduate school but who listen to the “don’t think about grades” guidance and don’t think about the need to do well to get in to graduate school.

@thomasfuchs That Quadra 700…. Still regret giving away the two I had when we sold our farm, but… lack the space for such things...